Barter's heart was giving him mixed emotions. He wanted to handle Laura by himself, and he hoped that Mr. Ban would not take it kindly with her. ''Ah...'' Barter heard the sound of Laura's voice, sounding petrified as she was under the mercy of Mr. Ban. He wanted to go inside to find out what the matter was, but he thought to hold back. ''Your absence has caused me a lot of stress and loss...'' Mr. Ban was saying to Laura as he took off her clothes slowly.Laura was whimpering like a sheep. She knew Mr. Ban already, she knew what he was capable of when he became like this. In fact, she knew exactly what he was going to do. ''Have you heard of the war going on?'' Mr. Ban was asking her as he took off her clothes.''What did you notice when you were coming in? Didn't you wonder where all my men are?'' Mr. Ban asked.Laura could only reply with whimpers. ''Well, they are all dead,'' Mr. Ban said without waiting for Laura to act as if she was going to give him any reply.At the men
Laura was mindlessly locked in a room next to Mr. Ban's room. It was a much smaller room. It was still Mr. Ban's room, as the only thing that separated it from Mr. Ban's actual room was a door that Mr. Ban could easily open and access. After Laura had been used and abused by Mr. Ban and Barter, Barter pulled her into this room with hate in his heart and eyes. She didn't need anyone to tell her that Barter hated her with his guts, and would much rather see her dead than under the same roof with him.''If not for Mr. Ban, you wouldn't have made it past the next five minutes of my seeing you. Unless I intended to torture you until you lose your spirit on your own,'' Barter said as he pulled Laura into that room.He held her auburn hair and dragged her to the ground, leading her to the room after Mr. Ban had unleashed the anger and pain he had felt for the past six months plus, on her. In her rather. ''Tramp!'' Barter spat out as he dumped her in the little room.This room looked like
Meanwhile, Lucy started hearing rumors about the new boss in town that pursued Mr. Ban into hiding. She heard that a man called Greg had returned from prison and taken the city unawares. ''Mr. Ban arrested him and took his woman...'' Lucy overheard one of her staff breaking down the storyline to a colleague, and she could not help but twitch her eyebrows in wonder. ''Pius...'' Lucy called the staff of hers that was explaining what really happened between Greg Chase and Mr. Ban, for them to harbor such extreme hate for themselves. ''Who is this Greg Chase of a man, and what does he have to do with my uncle?'' Lucy asked Pius as soon as he entered the office.The young man cowered and started to plead with Lucy, thinking that she was upset because he was saying negative things about her uncle, and she had called him to scold him. ''I am sorry, Ms. Ban. I didn't know you were around and that you will hear me. I was just telling him what...'' Pius was saying this when Lucy interrupted
Mr. Ban had been poisoned by Laura's extremely potent sleeping pill, but Barter did not taste any drink. Not while he had Laura under his nose, there was nothing that could excite him so much to take any alcohol, he wanted to hurt her so badly, and the fact that Mr. Ban was there to make it not happen pissed Barter off one million times. Mr. Ban's eyes were closing dramatically while he tried to keep them open. He was at work after all. Mr. Ban wondered why he was fighting to stay awake as much as he was. Even on a very good day when he would want to doze off after overworking, it was never as harsh as this. At the moment, it was as if someone was blowing into his eyes. His eyes couldn't stay open for a second. At a point, it was obvious that Mr. Ban could not hold back this drowsiness so he got up and stepped briskly to his bedroom, and slumped into bed. In his mind, it would just be a short nap and he would be right out, but he was unaware that he was going to cloud nine. As
''Ms. Ban...'' Barter said with a hoarse voice when he saw that the person that was walking into the house through the dark corridor was Lucy Ban. When he heard her footsteps and her voice calling out for her Uncle, Damien Ban, Barter paused on beating Laura up. Naturally, he would attack anyone that dared to trespass into Mr. Ban's inner chamber like that, but he heard the voice and it sounded very familiar, moreover, it was a lady's voice screaming, ''Uncle Ban...'' so there was no way that Barter could attack. Instead, he waited for the intruder to reveal herself. By now, Laura's face was already covered in blood and injuries. When Lucy walked up to Barter and he saw her he quickly stood in front of her, shielding her from seeing Laura's hopelessly beaten up body on the ground. Lucy was breathing heavily at this point, as she could see that someone was lying motionless on the ground, a woman for that matter. She became afraid. What had happened? Had Barter killed a woman bec
Barter cleaned Laura's wounds and gave her first aid treatment. He didn't take her into the inner room anymore but took her to a decent room that had a bed in it.She definitely needed some rest after receiving heavy beatings from Barter.Laura had to recuperate.Actually, she had not quite really snapped out of the daze, as she was semi-passed out. While Barter cleaned her up and treated her, she barely kept her eyes open, and Barter had to go as far as smacking her away when he wanted her attention. It was pretty tedious for both of them, but Barter succeeded, and now he had taken Laura into that other room and locked her inside.''If you need anything, there's a bell by your bedside, just ring it,'' Barter said.''And if I were you, I will try to ring it only when I need something done because if you abuse it, it will be removed, and then you will suffer negligence when you actually need it,'' Barter warned and left Laura in the room.This room was Laura's final bus stop.There
Lucy didn't go far away. She left Mr. Ban's house, but she was hovering around, waiting for him to wake up. Unfortunately for her, the sleeping substance that Laura had put in his whiskey was gravely potent. Mr. Ban didn't wake up until midnight, and there was no way she could wait in her luxury car on the streets, so she went back home. But, she was back early the next day. She had to get to the bottom of her findings, she had to get to the bottom of a lot of things. Mr. Ban's face was not looking good at all because of what he was forced to do to Laura.Laura had committed so many atrocities against Mr. Ban, Barter, and even the government, yet she refused to settle down and keep a low profile. She was still trying to escape. It pained Mr. Ban so much. Especially when he had to add salt to the injury and hit Laura several times across the cheeks when he heard that she drugged him.No wonder he could not stay put to finish a little task that he had in front of him. He just wanted
Mr. Ban was no longer as hot on the charts and as important a figure as he was in the recent past, so he could easily shift whatever appointment he was going to attend, in order for him to listen to Lucy. At Lucy's request, Mr. Ban went back inside the house, and into his study to have a brief meeting with Lucy.Lucy was wearing such a long face, that Mr. Ban secretly prayed that he was not in trouble.'How is your mother? Is she okay?'' Mr. Ban asked Lucy on their way back inside the house.Lucy nodded impatiently. Of course, if the problem was that her mother was not in good shape, she would not waste time entering his house to talk to him, as a matter of fact, he would have heard of such news without Lucy telling him anything, so Lucy dismissed his irrelevant question. Mr. Ban swallowed hard.Eventually, they got to the study, and both of them took a seat.''Uncle, did you have anything to do with the sacrilegious video of me and that former classmate of mine that made rounds on